PACs and SPACs!
After Hours
TED Audio Collective / Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, & Felix Oberholzer-Gee
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Were corporations right to stop political giving in a targeted way after the violence at the U.S. Capitol, and what is going on with SPACs?
Felix , Rebecca , and Mihir discuss the role corporations should play in politics and debate the merits of special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) as an alternative to the broken IPO process.
Recent picks, and recommended reading/websites:
- OpenSecrets.org
- FollowTheMoney.org
- War: How Conflict Shaped Us
- Garlic Herb Butter Roast Chicken recipe
You can visit our website at HarvardAfterHours.com. You can email your comments and ideas for future episodes to: harvardafterhours@gmail.com. You can follow Youngme, Mihir, Rebecca, and Rawi on Twitter at: @YoungmeMoon, @DesaiMihirA, @RebeccaReCap, and @RawiAbdelal.
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective. |
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| 0:27.7 | HBR presents. Hello, you're listening to After Hours, I'm Mehere. I'm Rebecca and I'm Felix. So today's the day, |
| 0:49.4 | inauguration. We'll have a new president before too long. Are you going to watch? I am. I mean, I've always |
| 0:56.6 | thought of inorgurations as just this meaningless pageantry, but given the events of this fall |
| 1:02.1 | and this January, I'm going to be there watching. |
| 1:05.0 | I mean... |
| 1:06.0 | I'm exactly like you. |
| 1:07.0 | I don't think I've ever seen it. |
| 1:09.0 | I have no idea even what to expect, but I think this one you cannot possibly miss. |
| 1:14.8 | Well I think that is one of the silver linings here which is that things we used to take for |
| 1:18.6 | granted, like a peaceful transition of power might become more exceptional and some things that we might value a little bit more than we ever have before. |
| 1:26.0 | Maybe that's a way to kind of get to a silver lining, but it certainly feels like that this year. |
| 1:30.0 | And I've never listened to the speech, and I'm really looking forward to the speech. |
| 1:33.4 | And it's an important speech Rebecca I think right? I mean it's not just that it's a speech |
| 1:37.1 | The first time right speaking to everyone. Yeah and yeah it'll be great I'm excited. It's finally taking place. |
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